I agree - but wanted to add that I had a query recently about the
ability to link to this and similar thesauri as a glossary for public-
access to SMRs and similar.
What's happening out there: are people
a) lining to the thesauri home page?
b) linking to frames?
c) linking to a different [national] glossary?
d) linking to their own glossary?
e) writing explanations of terms such as 'wychert' and 'poor house' into
their texts?
or
f) not bothering to explain what the terms mean?
With best wishes for fine feast days,
Pat
(Surrey Museums Development Officer)
In message <[log in to unmask]>, Kieron Niven
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>I'd agree, linking straight to a frames page is probably not a great idea in
>terms of accessibility and lacks the context of the list / frequentuser.htm
>page (which also provides guidelines on the use of the interface).
>
>Kieron
>
>
>>From: Trevor Reynolds <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: "The Forum for Information Standards in Heritage (FISH)"
>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: [FISH] Thesaurus of Building Materials
>>Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 11:02:53 +0000
>>
>>Ed
>>
>>As the URL you gave in your email to the frequent_user page takes you to a
>>page that is not cluttered up with the terrible English Heritage frames I
>>think that is fine.
>>
>>Your only one click away from the actual thesaurus you want and it is easy
>>to spot the one you need, so not too frustrating for those in a hurry. But
>>as you say gives you a bit of context and an idea of what else is
>>available.
>>
>>Trevor
>
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